Add a review about the Museum of Illegal Immigration and the Navy

Directly above the Bat-Galim Promenade, at the foot of Mount Carmel, is the Museum of Illegal Immigration and the Navy of Haifa. This is a fairly extensive museum with many exhibitions, including two decommissioned ships and a submarine, which can be examined from the inside. The museum is under the authority of the Navy and the Ministry of Defense of Israel, so do not be surprised that security at the entrance will require your documents.

After walking behind the security booth, visitors watch a short video presentation that gives an approximate picture of the history of the Israeli fleet. After that, their eyes show a decent collection of objects related to immigration and the sea: marine maps, photographs, notes and souvenirs. A catalog of military medals and insignia is also presented here.

One of the exhibitions tells about the capture of "Af Al-Pen Han" by the British and the forced sending to Cyprus of 434 of its immigrant passengers seeking to enter Palestine.

Excursion to history

@ In the main hall there is an exhibition "History of the Navy" . She tells about the battle for Tel Aviv, the first naval battle of the Israeli fleet, the ship "Eilat", which was originally a Canadian icebreaker, and then served as the coast guard of the United States and was intercepted by a group of Egyptian abley in June 1948 . with just a few machine guns and a fake cannon from a tree . Here you can read about Operation Pirate and see the exposition dedicated to helping the victims of the earthquake in Greece in 1953 . (it presents including the commando mannequin in full uniform of the 1950s sample .) .

The history of squadron 788, which defended the Sea of ​​Galilee for 20 years, is constantly interesting, being under the fire of Syrian MiGs and artillery. No less interesting is the amazing story of the seizure of the Egyptian military vessel "Ibrahim El Avel" by the Israeli fleet and its subsequent transformation into the ship "Haifa". And the mysterious history of the disappearance of the military Israeli submarine "Dakar" in the Mediterranean Sea in 1968 is absolutely amazing - the submarine was found only in 1999 with the help of Americans and the latest technologies.

Exhibits

A lot of people are loaded with historical information, visitors come out In the courtyard to inspect a large collection of guns and ship parts. Here are exhibited cruise anti-ship missiles P-15 "Termit" (Styx in NATO classification), which were created in the USSR in the 1960s, the Italian underwater landing boat Maiale, British, Italian and Israeli guns of all calibers (most of them were withdrawn from captured Egyptian ships), several ship screws and anchors.

"Mivtakh"

Having inspected all this wealth, you finally get to the missile cruiser "Mivtakh". It became the first Israeli warship, was built in Cherbourg (France) and launched in 1967 with a team of 40 people. After many military operations and glorious victories, he was written off in 1996 and turned into a museum. During his inspection, visitors are put on a realistic audio recording of the work of the mechanisms and teams from the felling

"Gal"

After Mivtakh, the turn of the submarine "Gal", which is created on the basis of the German submarines of type 206A. "Gal" was launched in 1975, participated in a number of combat operations and was written off after the appearance of submarines class "Dolphin". Inside the submarine, where natural sounds are heard for the submarine in the trek, visitors can also look at the periscope aimed at the road to the museum.

"Af Al Pi Heng"

The last "live" exhibit of the museum is the amphibious ship "Af Al Pi Heng, whose name can be translated as "In spite of everything" . Under it is a buried exhibition dedicated to the deportation camps in Cyprus, which were ruled by the British after the Second World War . The exhibition tells about the capture of "Af Al Pi Heng "British and forced sending to Cyprus 434 e of immigrant passengers who wanted to get to Palestine, as well as resistance to Israeli British authorities before the official recognition of the independent state of Israel .Here you can consider even household items that were used in the camps . And on the ship itself you will see an exposition with a lot of photos and documentary evidence .

Practical information

Address: Allenby Road, 204.

To The museum can be reached by buses No. 1, 2, 5, 26, 44 and 45.

Working hours: Sunday to Thursday from 8:30 to 16:00, Friday and Saturday days off.

Entrance: 15 NIS for adults, 7, 5 NIS for children (November 2014).